Lee calls for swift ‘restoration,’ not ‘transfer,’ of wartime command from US

President Lee Jae Myung on Monday renewed his call for South Korea to regain wartime operational control from the United States as early as possible, insisting that the process should be described as "regaining" or "restoring" command rather than simply "transferring" it. "To put it bluntly, we must regain wartime operational control at an early date, and we are fully capable of doing so," Lee said during an impromptu meeting with reporters at the presidential press center, Chunchugwan, where he

Source: The Korea Herald